Though sister Samantha mostly aligns w/where I am on sex and gender, I don’t see The OU professor as wrong for this. The truth is, she didn’t source, quote or give any empirical data in her response. What she did was affirm what she believed the Bible taught which doesn’t meet the standards of what was required.

https://x.com/Ameen_HGA/status/1994155547390607771

It was more of a simple opinion piece of personal belief than it was an academic response replete with empirical data, research and proper sourcing. There was a way she could have represented what she believed academically which was what the professor wanted.

I can’t believe in 2025 folks are saying “they never explain” how parties flipped. Beloved, we are in the information age and Amazon is delivering books very quickly now.

Here’s a brief overview of how parties “flipped”:

https://twitter.com/njbeisner/status/1957842340770681149

The “flip” is less parties flipping and coalitions and platforms flipping/changing.

In the 19th century southern dems were dominant in the south & tied themselves to supporting slavery. When the Republican party came along in the 1850’s as the party of Lincoln they were very much anti-slavery (people can criticize how much they were anti-slavery and why but that’s another convo for another day)

I think there’s few things more telling of how low some evangelicals that have an incestuous relationship w/ political tribalism has stooped than their incessant criticism for Tim Keller posthumously - esp since a lot is aimed at his political engagement not being as extreme as theirs And it’s not even just the critique but the tenor and tone of the critique. A lot of it is just laced with disgust, pomp and self-righteousness. A whole lot of folks who are really doing nothing but building platforms off of tearing folks down criticizing an imperfect man that did much of substance for The Kingdom

The bomb being the cause of Japan's surrender is a type of revisionist history (imo) that makes us look good but it’s not true - here's why:

Japan wasn’t moved by the 1st bomb (and even the second in a sesne) because they didn’t see it as doing as much damage as the totality of the firebombs had already done to Japan (they were right in a sense). The firebombing that we did before we dropped the 2 bombs had already decimated the majority of Japan. By the time we dropped the bombs we were relegated to bombing cities that had a small population of people compared to the ones we already bombed..

I have always said is that folks on the right will say racist stuff they believe in & then blame the left for their racism.

Ex: Charlie Kirk says if he were to see a black pilot flying a plane he was on he will question his qualification - not because he's black but because "the left" has made him skeptical of if he's an unqualified DEI hire. Forget the fact that most plane crashes happen under white pilots, this is just a reiteration of the whole racist "you're only here because of Affirmative Action" sentiment repackaged as animus toward DEI.

Fact is, some don't ever think black folks are qualified - they now can just use DEI as a scapegoat

If your whole Christian witness and platform is known more for what you’re against rather than what you’re for then you may need to do some self-inventory. As believers we are always engaged in a fight against the kingdom of darkness but sheesh! Embattlement can’t be your… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… I’m still “reformed” of course but as I always say I have made a departure from reformed culture - which is now imo full of the theobros (I actually think it always was) and I just remember that we always had to be against something and debating someone on their bad theology.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Stories u don’t get to hear about often is civilians w/guns neutralizing active shooters or being able to defend themselves in a situation in which a gunman is trying to harm them. Civilians defending themselves with firearms happens more than we know. It’s not reported on a lot

https://twitter.com/ap/status/1548836601278734336

texasmonthly.com/articles/steph…

The religious right movement has convinced some evangelicals out here that the right is not just as carnal or secular as “the left” and it’s mystifying how they let a veneer of Christianity deceive them into thinking that their side of the spectrum is the “Christian” one.

https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1548317608448888837

That’s why talking about the secular right is important because there are Xians out there that think that only “the left” is secular/carnal. Neither the left or right wing political movements are Christian. One is just better at pandering to xians due to some intersecting values.

If you claim to be a critical thinker full of intellectual integrity then you cannot have this mindset when thinking through politics/culture:

Anything to the left of what I already believe cannot be true.

Anything to the right of what I already believe cannot be true. If you think nothing to the left of what you already believe cannot be true because everything to the left is wrong then you’re not really willing to be as critical/honest as you claim. The same goes if you think nothing to the right of what you believe cannot be true.

"The evangelistic desire to minimize offense to gain a hearing for the gospel can obscure what our political moment requires."

Essentially saying the “political moment” is the main driver. When is the “political moment” to be the main thing leading a Christian’s political ethic?

https://twitter.com/firstthingsmag/status/1522592021793320960

Our political ethics —which should be informed by the biblical ethics of scripture—shouldn’t change depending on the “political moment.” The social witness and ethic that scripture requires of us is concrete no netter what the “political moment” is.

Sound doctrine and theology matters. It’s of extreme importance. But simply being able to articulate theology or being passionate about defending the truth against error doesn’t somehow make you safe from God’s judgement and displeasure. Peep the church of Ephesus in Revelation 2 You can have all the doctrinal vigilance in the world! You can defend against false prophets and false teaching with all truth and conviction and still have abandoned your first love and love of others. Repentance was in order for Ephesus in this context.